Johann Georg Fellwöck

Johann Georg Fellwöck (also: Johann Georg Felbäch ) (* 1728 in Oberhausen in Lower Bavaria, † 1810 in Würzburg ) (different date of birth 1702) was a German mechanic.

Life

Johann Georg Fellwöck was born as the son of Sebastian Felbäch, carpenter in Lodersöd .

He worked with the court carpenter Benedikt Schlecht in the Würzburg residence and became acquainted with Johann Georg Neßfell , at the latest when he received the order from Prince-Bishop Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim to build a planetarium in 1755 . Johann Georg Fellwöck became his colleague and was significantly involved in the construction of two large wall quadrants for the university observatory , as Neßfell was already falling ill at this time. In his will, Johann Georg Fellwöck bequeathed all his tools as well as wood, iron, steel and brass to a young relative in return for compensation of 40 guilders. As the successor to Neßfell, he was well equipped with the material he had left and was now aiming for the title of master. During this time, he and his brother Stefan were admitted to the master craftsman's guild in Würzburg. Although they were foreigners, both only had to present the carpenter's small masterpiece , a privilege reserved only for the sons of Würzburg master craftsmen. Presumably this admission was made through intervention from a higher authority.

Until 1766 Fellwöck regularly opened, dismantled and cleaned the Neßfell planetarium in the princely university library free of charge. Since he was involved in the manufacture of the planetarium, he knew the subtleties and knew how to look after them accordingly. In the same year he asked the Prince-Bishop for compensation in the form of an interest-free loan of 1,000 guilders, which he paid off annually with 50 guilders. The prince-bishop recognized the university's need for a mechanic and hired him, but it was not until 1769 that he received regular payment in the form of two malter grains per year, which he then received until the end of his life, although he had been the since the mid-1770s Machine no longer wound up.

As a university mechanic, he was subordinate to the director of the observatory, Professor Franz Huberti , who commissioned some work, including the creation of a movable quadrant with two telescopes in 1766 (today in the National Technical Museum in Prague ), in 1768 a height quadrant (now in the Deutsches Museum in Munich ) and an astronomical pendulum clock (today in the Bavarian National Museum ), which was used until the observatory was destroyed in 1945. The vernier scales of the quadrants, which Johann Georg Fellwöck produced under the guidance of Huberti, were a great improvement over the scales on Netfell's wall quadrants.

Johann Georg Fellwöck built a planetarium under the guidance of the Würzburg Father Fridericus a Santo Christophero, which was later acquired by the Banz Monastery . Huberti also built a planetarium for the University of Würzburg in 1764, on which Fellwöck worked.

After Benedikt Schlecht he was employed as a court carpenter in the residence.

Honors

In 1809 Johann Georg Fellwöck became an honorary member of the Society for the Perfection of the Mechanical Arts and Craftsmen.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ID Fowler / Gutwein watches. Retrieved February 18, 2018 . 
2. ^ Nuremberg: twinning with Prague. Retrieved August 27, 2018 . 
3. ^ Deutsches Museum: Guide through the collections . Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-663-15991-9 , pp. 51 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
4. ↑ Huberti. Retrieved August 27, 2018 .